Tobacco bags or wrapper



(No Model.

W J. GUSSEN.

TOBACCO BAG OR WRAPPER No. 370.780. Patented Sept. 27,. 1887.

objects to grovide a bag or wrapper Wi o'isting of a cc-xi 2 5 coated or saturated with hygroscopic material f iTcN'i FFECE.

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FUD OGUN'JFT A ER 60, (ii BIUHMOIIDQVIRGINIA,

GNOR TWVO-THIRDS TU oc wuiiooco.

SPECIPICATEON forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,730, dated September 2'7, 188').

App'iicaiion filed April it, 1857.

Serial No, 924.732. (No model.)

county of Henri-c and Siaic of Vis'ginic, have 5 invented certain liewand usefulImprovements in Tobacco Bag or Wrappers, of which iiic following is a specification. v

This invention relates to certain improve ments in bzagc for tobacco; and in has for its ch wi'ii keep the tobacco mois: and iii QFiHhB coudiiion, forming ac original packagc cud from which the tobacco be removed. in small.

quantities to time, more i'uiiy iieisciociceicocciiesei.

My im'c f'ioo c sists a material for-r the construction 05 to we bags or wrappers, cooio fabric having incorporated with its body iiygi'occo iic uzaitei'ia'i and one s coeicd with a materiel so soriti oisture and. air, more i'uily hereinai'ier ca forth,

invention concictc in a or and recoatcd with a subsiaucc which wiii, iii! the pores and render the fabric impervious torctcin the original,

tho atmosphere, and thus moissore of the; package in flying out "mention iiie fabric, .2 ii'c'ii may consist u. i suizabic imul'ial, is first coated or saturated with fmy hygroscopic maier'ci, giyccz-io *eing pi 1i fobi "S- than recoeti .ith go. no, Eicrch, or

azi other substance that wiii fill the pores and fender lbe-material impervious to the atmosfi'tiecc. Tiio'surfoce of the material which is 3.0 io'iz'n the outside of the bag or wrapper is 'thcnoriiamented by dyes, printing, or other- 40 gyisc, after which the material is made up into bags as usual.

The bag as time coostrucied is coubiuuciiy moist on the inside, and as the ail-is excluded it is evident that the tobacco cannotbecome dry. When used for cigarette or cigar packcgec, the prepared material is out; into shoots l,

of suitable size and Wrapped around the orti ales and secured or past-ed together at the edges or the moicrizd may be formed into tub-es of c itabllc icngt-ii and of such capacity as tocona ,suit 'ble number of cigarettes or cigars. :c c loooo lining of paper 1" other cd with paz'aiiinc or other suitabie iiictci'iai may be interposed beiwccn tho into- IiOi of we prepared material and the article-c 5 to prevent soiling or injuring the some.

The big or Wrapper is iotcudcd principally for small packages of either smoking or chewi obacco, Where :1, light wrapper is required and whom Zoom/y or doubied material would .iThc ntudcrici when prepared for wrappers for cigarettes or cigars may be coated on one ofiis edges with gum, muciicge, or other ccmc ting niet-cziei, so. that it can be secured 6 around a bundle of cigars or cigarettes bycini "ply zoo sides thosc herein mentioned may be used, I

desire it understood that; 1 do notlimit myself in this respect. 7 Having thus de ciibcd my iuventiomwhat. I

claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

The rileihod herein described of preparing toxiiic fabrics for the manufacture of tobacco bags or wrappers, the some consisting in incorpoi'ating iu the body of the material giycerinc, and then coating the fabric thus treated upon one 01- both of its sides with gelatiuc, subsiautially as and for the forth.

in testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Wit-ucsscs.

' WILLIAM J. CUSSEN.

VIit/nesccs:

Jos. E. LONG, JAs. A. BLACK.

purposes heroin set 

